Heat In Transit info

You might lose 5 maybe 10 depending on how cold it is outside

 

I don't know anything about tankers but, if you went through the trouble to hook it up why not use it?

 

Unless you are hauling the same product in the same trailer its always going to be a different rate of loss. Some trailers have really good insulation and some products have a high specific heat and you wont need to worry about temperature loss.

I got loaded last Saturday for a Monday delivery, loaded @120F, delivery got delayed until Wednesday afternoon (grrrr) and the product temp had only dropped to 105F. No HIT and no steam and air temps below 32F all 5 days. It was a thick product that held its heat really well.

 

Like @ncdriver1 said It all depends on the tanks insulation. I used to haul epoxy a lot. We would steam to 160° and I would run Chicago to Cincinnati leaving in the afternoon and delivering cinci in the morning and I'd lose as much as 10° in a MC407. They were older trailers and a little beat up, so the heat loss was greater then what a newer tank would be. Knowing something at all about the equipment I've seen your company run, I'd say you're in the same boat.

@p608 it can be a drag on the coolant system making your motor run cold. If the system wasn't flushed, it can also contaminant your coolant. It won't heat the product, but it can slow the speed at which it cools.


Btw, I've never heard it said "heat in transient". Everyone I've worked for calls it "intransit heat " that must be a SNI thing.

 

It's impossible to answer. Every product and trailer is different.

 

Transit heat will not raise the product temp from 100 degrees to 180, unless you. Stay on it for a month! Yo will need to get on steam.